Nun Says Thieves This Time Get What They Need: A Bible

Getting robbed is becoming a bad habit for a Plantation nun who has been victimized twice in two months.

But this time, Sister Assumption hopes the thieves who accosted her and a helper on a Miami street will benefit from their deed.

The take: A Bible and some written notes.

``I guess they kept it, maybe it will do them some good,`` Sister Assumption, of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart in Plantation, said on Thursday. ``Maybe they were disappointed, maybe they read and they were converted.``

The sister and a helper were stopped at the intersection of Northeast Second Avenue and 62nd Street in Miami on Saturday afternoon when thieves shattered the passenger-side window and grabbed a bag off the helper`s lap, Sister Assumption said.

The two women were on their way to a mobile home park to evangelize.

On Sept. 25, Sister Assumption and another nun from the convent were surrounded by thieves just blocks from Saturday`s robbery site. The thieves snatched their pocketbooks and broke the other nun`s finger during a struggle.

Sister Assumption said she reported neither robbery to police. ``What`s the use?`` she asked. ``Everybody`s getting that type of thing.``

She vowed to continue her missions through Miami, despite the obvious dangers. ``I will keep on going, that is my mission,`` she said. ``It doesn`t matter it`s dangerous, that is my mission.``